On 10/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Kelsay</b> <<a href="mailto:ripcrd@gmail.com">ripcrd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have a hard time with understanding how the government via the<br>courts can allow patent suits, copyright claims, et al ad nauseum when<br>the person/company that sells the item disclaims all warranty for the<br>product and even states that "it may not even be fit for the use it is
<br>intended." Run with that Monty or someone.</blockquote><div><br></div></div>Well, copyright is easy. A book can by copyrighted regardless of any fitness for use. This email is Copyright (c) MMVII Monty J. Harder (portions Copyright Brian Kelsay). All rights reversed.
<br><br>A computer program is no different WRT copyright. I once wrote a package of little DOS utilities for shoehorning programs into the upper memory block corresponding to monochrome video, and explicitly disclaimed everything. The only thing I guaranteed the package to do was take up space on hard drives.
<br><br>Now, patents are an entirely different kettle of fish as it were. One of the reasons I hate the term "Intellectual Property" is that it conflates these things. In order to get a patent, the thing you're trying to patent has to actually work. Arguably, this makes the burden of proof a bit higher on patent holders than on copyright holders.
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